Apple MarComm VP Allison Johnson to Leave the Company

Allison Johnson, Apple’s vice-president of worldwide marketing communications for the past six years, will soon leave to start a new marcomm firm with former Facebook PR executive Brandee Barker, according to All Things Digital’s Digital Daily.

John Paczkowski’s sources say that Ms. Johnson’s departure from Apple will happen sometime this spring, but further details are scant. Mr. Paczkowski noted that she managed PR at Hewlett-Packard before she came to Apple, where she handled global advertising for the popular ads created by TBWA\Chiat\Day and reported directly to CEO Steve Jobs.